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The Mkvklkjcnd Ztak VOL. XU No. 34 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. »/ Mail, pm nu, (la adMMai _ h.m Cartur, par Mr, (la Mvwmpi _ MM Late News THB MARKET8 Colton, spot. 12% to 13% Cotton seed. ton. wagon-28.00 Cotton seed, ton, carlots .... 30.00 Rain Tonight Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Cloudy, followed by rain to night and colder. Probably rain in northwest tomorrow and colder. .. Denounce A. F. L. By UNITED PRESS DETROIT, March 19.—A formal statement denouncing the organi zation and activities of the Ameri can Federation of Labor as “un American and unpatriotic” was is sued today by the National Antomo- i bile Chamber of Commerce. It was I announced that the statement j would be printed in the Detroit pap- j ers as a paid advertisement. Hint Wage Slash By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, March 19.—Rail road managers threatened today to pres* demands for a fifteen per cent reduction on base wages if unions continue to refuse to accept present j wages for another six months. Gangsters Armed By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, March 19.—More persons are under arms in the un derworld today than the combined forces of the United States army and navy, United States Attorney | General Cummings said today. He ] testified before the Judiciary com- j mittee on a series of anti-gangster j and anti-racketeering bills propos ed by the department of justice. The March Of Events Army Flies Again j Crack Army pilots were poised this morning to fly the mail again, after a week’s suspension. They were to hop off with the mail over eight selected routes, and new safe ty measures have been taken. Re sumption of service on seven more lines will follow soon. Wait Strike New* More than 10,000 automobile workers held mass meetings Sun day to discuss their- grievances. They are waiting the decision of manufacturers which will decide whether they go on strike Wednes day unless unions are recognized. It's a three-cornered fight—Gen eral Motors, American Federation; of Labor, and NRA. Hits Disarmament World attempts at disarmament have resulted in abject failure. Premier Benito Mussolini declared j yesterday. He said the idea of keep ing Germany disarmed was a “mere illusion.” II Duce delivered his ukase dramatically, wearing the new Fascist uniform, all black. He J further declared that the League of Nations would have to prove it self now or submit to reorganiza tion. Huns Ask Arms Germany must act to insure her most primitive neqds of self-de fense if France rejects her most recent arms proposal, the German newspaper Boersen Zeitung said yesterday. “We expect France to accept Germany’s minimum pro posals.” Insull At Sea Samuel Insull expects to remain at sea for a month, secure from American extradition, it was re ported in Greece yesterday. A law yer said the refugee was going to Abyssinia, a little Ethiopian king dom in northern Africa. Hail New Treaty Austria hailed yesterday a three-; " ay treaty proposed between Italy, j Hungary and Austria, and already signed by Chancellor Dolfuss. The pact guarantees Independence of a" signers. Traders Balked Strikes and threatened strikes in "'nay Industrial centres are giving wall Street traders a headache, ac cording to reports from N. Y. The speculators don’t know which way lump, bullish or bearish. The "i°tor traders are particularly wor ^r‘ And Mr*. Houser Leave For St. Pete h.ET'.and Mrs‘ E- A Houser of Shel y left on Saturday for St. Peters ''1 ‘f' ^orida, to spend several tn Dr- Houser has been forced hi- , e 8 vacation on account of a 'r< -en rib, sustained two weeks ago ‘ en he fell in his bathtub. Bond Is Requested For Mae Blalock, Touhy Gangstress Costner’s Lawyer Is Here In Behalf Girl Held In Charlotte Jail On Mall Truck Robbery Charges; Ask New Indictment. Marcus Erwin, district attorney, asked the Federal grand Jury here today, shortly after court opened, to add the charge of conspiracy to the original indictment against mem bers of the Touhy gang charged with robbing a Charlotte mall truck of more than $100,000. The original charge, on which an indictment has already been ren dered, was for assault with intent to rob, and robbery. Another angle of the Touhy case was brought into court when R. M. Atkins, of Knoxville, Tenn., attor ney, who says he has represented Isaac Co6tner, appeared on behalf of Mae Blalock, a woman implicat ed with the Touhys in the robbery asked Judge Webb to release the woman from the Charlotte Jail on bond. In view of the prisoner’s deli cate condition, Judge Webb indicat ed that a bond of $2,000 would be acceptable. Native Of Shelby Killed In Wreck Early Friday Eve Stokes Smith, Son Of W. 8. Smith, Ilf Wreck Near Fallston; Died At Hospital. Stokes Smith, age 42, son of W. S. Smith of this city, was almost in stantly killed early Friday night when the car in which he was driv ing to Hickory collided with that of Hall Tillman, Fallston service sta tion operator, at Fallston. Smith was a barber at Hickory, and was on his way baek to work after visiting his parents here. Spectators who viewed the wreck say that the car was traveling at an unusually fast rate of speed, and none are able to say exactly how the accident occurred. Smith was immediately brought to the Shelby hospital, where he died in a few minutes. A companion, Garfield Jones, also of Hickory, was given first aid treatment and re leased from the hospital after a short time. Tillman was said to have escaped uninjured. Funeral services were conducted at the Hickory residence yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The rites were presided over by the Rev. J. H. Armbrust and Dr. R. K. Red wine. Surviving Mr. Smith are his widow and two children, Richard and Frances. A son, W. B. Smith, died last June following an illness from septic sore throat. Mr. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Williams Smith of this city, and eleven brothers and sisters also survive. They are D. E. Smith, Charlotte, Rev. C. I. Smith, Mebane, Sam Smith, this city, Mrs. S. G. Jones, Hickory, Mrs. Ray Glover, Mrs. Fred Bamberg, Charlotte, Mrs. Wade Arledge, Rock Hill, S. C., Mrs. Charles Reinhardt, Mrs. Ed Kiser, Mrs. Seth Weaver, this city, and Mrs. R. O. Bumgardner, Chester, S. C. COTTON DROPS $1.00 ON EXCHANGE TODAY Because of the uncertain trend of legislation pending in Washington, cotton on the New York exchange dropped twenty points or $1 a bale today. At 2 o’clock May cotton was quoted at 11.87, July 12.07. The House of Representatives passed the Bankhead cotton control bill shortly after 'noon today. Reynolds Critizes Tardiness Of Home Owner's Body Action Washington, March 18.—The Fed eral Home Owners’ corporation in North Carolina, with its Salisbury headquarters and branches, was taken to task yesterday by Senator Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville, who said, "I am distressed to learn that of the 11,370 applications filed only 944 have actually been passed upon and closed." In criticizing the tardiness of the organization in making loans. Sen ator Reynolds pointed to the faci that less than one of every 10 has been passed upon. In a formal statement, the sena tor says: “I am not at all satisfied with the workings of the Howe Owners’ Loan corporation In North Caro lina and operation thereof, Insofar as delay and dissatisfaction are concerned. Conditions have been brought to my attention by a num ber of constituents who were com plaining pertaining to the delay In securing these loans, and as a re suit thereof I have made an inves tigation of the matter through the headquarters of the Home Loan bank here at Washington. Wans Of Strike Despite pacific efforts of General Hugh Johnson (lower left), NRA Administrator, tension increases in automobile industry as W. S. Knudsen (upper), executive vice-presi dent of General Motors flatly tells National Labor Board his corporation will never recognize an American Federa tion of Labor union or sign a contract with it. At right, President William Green, A. F. L., as he predicted great est strike in history of auto industry. Congress Passes Bankhead Bill Over G. O. P. Warnings Driverless Car Brings Liquor To The Sheriff An abandoned automobile loaded with 36 gallons of moonshine ca reened down the roadway, lurched over the shoulder and brought up against a sand bank. Not a drop was spilled. Sheriff Cline and Roger Laugh ridge and Bob Kendrick, with their car parked across a bridge over Brushy Creek in No. 7 township, watched the car roll and stop. They saw no one in it or near it. This oc curred at 7 o’clock Friday night, and the officers are still puzzled. The car was a 1933 Plymouth, which investigation revealed had once belonged to a Dr. Morgan of Lincolnton. The license plate was hsi. The sheriff and his men had been tipped off that liquor would be hauled that night, and they got it—without firing a shot or seeing the white’s of anybody’s eyes. Miss Thomas Hurt As Car Turns Qvei Moores boro, Mar. 18.—Miss Boom er Thomas of Avondale, was taken to the Rutherford hospital Thurs day night suffering from fright and injuries sustained when the car in which she was riding with Miss Ruby Wells, also of Avondale, and James McKinney and Wake Brid ges. The other passengers suffered only minor injuries. Miss Wells was driving the car, which belonged to Mr. McKinney, and failed to see a line of tele graph poles. When Bridges at tempted to prevent a mishap, the driver missed the brakes, opened the throttle, and the car leaped across the road, and turned turtle Control Bill Would Limit Production TolO Million. WASHINGTON. Much 19.—(2 P. M.)—By United Pres*.—The House today passed the Bankhead Cotton > Control bill in the face of Bepilb lican warnings that the measure marked the first step of an effort to regiment all American agricul ture. The bill limits the next mar ketable crop of cotton to ten million bales and taxes all cotton in excess I which moves in Interstate eom j merer. After weathering committee hear ings, the Bankhead cotton bill, In which Cleveland county growers have evinced so much interest, will be considered by the house today. The bill limits production to ten million bales and places a heavy tax on overproduction. It also author izes the secretary of agriculture to fix the limit of production for a sec ond y ear. In the meantime, the New York cotton market is weak, due to the uncertainties of control legislation. Neither mills nor speculative buy ers showed a desire to abandon their conservative trading course of the last fortnight. Commitments were held down because no one could say definitely up to the mar ket’s close on Saturday what would be the decision of the lower house on the Bankhead bill; and the tendency toward neutral positions was made more marked by claims that mill interests were beginning to feel that a new situation might be looming with respect to operat ing hours and wages. a At Saturday’s close it was gener ally expected In the trade that the house vote on the Bankhead meas ure would be a subject for market Interpretation at Monday’s opening, but news came from Washington after the finish at trading that the vote had been deferred until Mon day. In cloth and goods markets busi ness was in limited volume, as it was in immediately preceeding weeks. Sales, according to meet es timates, again fell below the cur rent rate of production. Some im portant selling houses reported a moderate amount of buying, chief ly of spot lots of sheetings, print cloths and fine goods. Textile quarters commented that cloth business has been in a declin ing trend for about a month, that buyers are fairly well supplied and hesitant about adding to their pra#. vious purchases in view of the still unsettled crop control situation. Except for a little easing in sec ond hands, trade quarters repented, cloth prices were generally steady during the week. Shipments con tinued to run in good volume and it was asserted that stocks are not accumulating. Mill operations were said to be at a slightly higher rate than hi February. Palmer McSwain, Shelby Athlete, Dies In Hospital Mill To Be Closed In Respect To Him Former High School Star Athlete Succumb* To Septic Throat After Week'* Illness. Palmer McSwain, son of Mr*. J. W. McSwain and a former athletic star at Shelby high school and the University of North Carolina, died In the Shelby hospital Sunday morning after a week’s Illness with septic sore throat. He was 33 years old. Funeral services will be held to day at 3:30 o’clock at the Second Baptist church with the pastor, the Rev. C. V. Martin, officiating as sisted by the Rev. Rush Padgett, the Rev. W. A. Elam and Dr. Zeno Wall. Palmer, known to his host of friends and admirers as “Shorty,” was graduated from Shelby high school In 1931, and was a star per former in basketball, football and baseball, and was one of the most popular students in school. He at tended the University of North Car olina for one year, and has since been employed at the Shelby Cot ton Mill. Palmer was very popular with his fellow-workers, and the mill will be closed for two or three hours this afternoon in respect to him. His death cast a gloom over the entire city. He had a host of friends and hundreds of them called at the home yesterday to pay a tribute of respect. Many beautiful floral of ferings were In evidence, the larg est and most beautiful being offer ed by his fellow-workers. He is survived by his mother, two sisters, Mrs. Annabelle Moore and Miss Mildred McSwain. and . two brothers, Harlan and Marvin. Also, two grandmothers, Mrs. Non Mc Swain and Mrs. M. D. Sellea af CherryvUle, survive. — Geo. Allen Makes AnnouncementFor Seat In The House Kings Mountain Service Station Operator la Flnt To Annonnoo for Representative. Geo. A. Allen, service station op ! erator of Kings Mountain today an | nounced his candidacy for the jhouBe of representative from Cleve land county. Mr. Allen was born and reared In Cleveland county, Is former Chief of Polioe of Kings Mountain, and a former mayor of Easley, 8. C. He is a brother of the former Sheriff Irvin Allen of this county and bis father served as keeper of the coun ty home for many years. Says Mr. Allen In his announce ment “I am not engineering this race as a candidate of any faction or any political clique other than the Democratic party and If elected I will go to Raleigh unhampered and unbossed, free to work for the Interests of all the people of my county and state. "I shall face every Issue squarely as it arises and promise that if I introduce any legislation, it shall run its due course. I shall appre ciate an expression of sentiment of voters on all pending legislation and public questions. I shall pitch my campaign on a high plane and shall at all times keep it on a par with the high office and the good name of Cleveland county. I shall not deal in personalities with my opponents in the campaign. I am not trying to go to Raleigh to spite anyone, not even my bitterest poli tical enemies. I know that all folks want a square deal, honest, straight forward service and this I promise to give. Problems will arise that re quire seasoned judgment and fore sight and I promise not to take snap judgment, but give serious thought and consideration to all matters.” Horace Eaton To Be With Gipoy Smith Mr. Horace Basorn, director of education and music at the First Baptist church, left on last Friday for Durham, where he will direct the music In a city-wide revival 'campaign, sponsored by all denom inations of that city. Gipsy Smith, sr., is to be the evangelist. He is a world-renowned preacher and is known and has been heard in all parts of the world. The campaign will run for three weeks As Lindy Testifies Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is shown as he appeared be fore the Senate committee and the microphones to tell air mail investigators and the nation why he was opposed to features of the pending administration air mail bill which would restore mail flying to private operators under rigid safeguards. Repeal Boon To Bootleggers, Webb Tells Grand Jury Here Perfectly Printed "The Discovered On Fresh Laid Egg And now the typographic*! Dom lnicker. This <me belongs to K, Rastus Whitworth, who live* about two mile* from Blacksburg. On Friday,' Mr. Whitworth went to gather his eggs, and found in one nest a per fectly formed egg with the word "the” perfectly printed on the oval surface. It had Just been laid when he found it. He looked carefully through the nest to see if any scraps of news paper had been thrown into it. but there were none. The only explana tion he could offer was that his hen had been eating her words. Fallston Student Wins Hoey Award Weller Kays Gary, Fallston en trant in the annual Clyde R. Hoey county-wide declamation contest was awarded first place in the fin als of the contest Friday night. The subject of his declamation was “My Hands Are Innocent of This Blood.” This contest is sponsored each year to train students in oratory. Six speakers contested Friday night at the Washington school. No. 20 Now Open; Has New Surface Highway No. 30 opened on Sat urday, according to schedule. The portion of the road between the old city limits and the bridge has beer, widened and resurfaced, and now the awkward detour, which for more than a month was the incon venience of residents of Cleveland Springs, is no longer necessary. Declares Liquor Tax Increases Profits For ’Shiners ‘ Bootlegging will go on. Soma thought the liquor tax would stop It, but my experience la, the high er the tax, the more bootleggerx” Judge E. Yates Webb told a Fed eral Grand Jury this morning ac court opened here. “Three gallons of liquor can be made from a bush el of meal,” Judge Webb continued "and this only coats $1.50. Natural ly, the bootlegger can undersell the taxpaying manufacturer, who pays $2.10 a gallon levy. Bootleggers flourished here before, when the rest of the nation was wet, and they will flourish again until we have a lot of officers to track them down and bring them to trial.” Judge Webb’s comment on prohi bition was the last point he made in a brief and informal charge to the 19 men whose names had Just been drawn from the hat by pretty little Betty Hull Newton. He charged the Jury with strict attention to cases Involving theft of cars, counterfeiting, impersona tion of a United States officer, em bezzlement of postal funds, excess charges by attorneys on veterans' compensation papers, and white slave traffic. The Judge, In a charming and informal verbal essay, traced the origin of government from the days when the man in the cave was afraid of everything. Including his fellows* Gradually, he learned the strength of unity, and when a few had banded together for safety government had been created. The best government until dem ocracy, Judge Webb said, was that of the ancient Greeks, known as aristocracy—or government by the iContinued on page eight.) Farm Leaders To Meet In Capital T j Probe Roosevelt Tariff Plans Washington, Mar. IS.—The farm leaders of America propose to meet, in Washington within the next two weeks to analyse the Roosevelt tar iff program and see where agricul ture in its broad aspects will fit in the plane for the economic recon struction of the country, it was made known in farm circles here today. The call for the conference ts ex pected to be issued by L. J. Taber master of the National Orange, and grows out of the apprehension in farm ranks that while theoretically of benefit to all branches of their industry, a few may get the lion’s share, while others will be elimi nated completely. “The farm groups approach the era of reciprocity with fear and trembling," Chester Gray, Wash ington representative of the Am erican Pamj Bureau federation, has informed the senate finance com mittee. to whom he has appealed for tire retention in the present revenue bill of the proposed tax of five cento per pound on coconut and sesame oils. ' The chief beneficiaries of the pro gram would be the producers of cotton, tobacco, rice, wheat, apples, pears and pork products. On the losing side are seen the producers of flax seed, winter vegetables, cit rus fruits, shapgrown tobacco, case in, hides, tomato pre-ducts, olive oil, jherries, sugar, St?.:the* and - oils, irnong a long list of commodities. Making Plans For Bargain Carnival Last Of This Week j Merchants Advertise Good Bargains Merchants in Advertise Spring Of Miinv and Bargains tar 1km Days. Rpeetal SdHIim. Merchants are making plane tot their “Spring Opening and Bargain Carnival- to be held Thursday Friday and Saturday of the week, March Mnd. 93rd and Mth. It is the first big cooperative sale event the merobanta have had since the Chamber of oonuneroe was nr* ganlmd. If the e successful, as ev erythtng points that N will be, the merchants plan to hold from tee to four special sale events each year. Pricee on merchandise are going up, but the merchants have goads purchased on a low market and wW throw them out at vary attractive prices, it e expected that thousands of shoppers will come from tor and near to taka advantage e( these HWVMIP) AH new spring and summer air* 1m in wearing apparel, furniture, etc., will be on display and marked at special low prioea. Orocere, da* partment stores, drug and hardware stores, enrages, etc., are planning la make attractive price* for these three days, Wednesday's Edition. Wednesday’s issue of The Star ?! will carry advertisement* of taer* 1 chants offering special bargain*. Al ready over 1,500 Inches of advertis ■« ment has been engaged for this is sue and It is expected that the is sue will be Id pages in Bias. Smith Announces ForRepresentative In This District Former Welfare Officer And Sep reeentatlve. Gives Part Of »s Platform. j * B. Smith, who served ten years as county welfare officer and one term as Representative from Cleve land county in the General As* scrnbly, today announced hie oan dldacy for the House. Mr. Smith lives in No. 5 township, taught school for thirty yean and la active in religious and oivic affaire. In making his announcement he gives his views on several public questions, saying: “I endorse the general principles of the National Recovery Aet, the purpose of which is to put (he va rious industries of the country **§?> on their feet and give the laboring man a living wage. I also indorse the agricultural policy of the Na tional Government in its attempt to put agriculture on a paying basis. favor* rron teuton. “A* to State Issues, it is my ptn poee, if I am your representative, to support those measures that are of greatest good to the greatest number. In regard to prohibition, I regard that Issue settled, but if it comes up in the general assembly I shall carry out the mandate of the majority of the people as ex pressed at the polls last November "I have been asked what my views are on the reduction in the price of automobile license. I am to? favor of reducing the price qn au tomobile licenses, but not below the point where it will seriously on danger the amount of revenue ne cessary for maintaining the pub’l< highways of the State. Education And Local Laws. “Perhaps one of the most vita questions that will confront tb« next general assembly will be that of the public schools of the State It is my purpose to support the en actment of legislation that will gtv» every child In the State the oppor tunity of adequate provision and efficient instruction at the least possible ooet to the tax payers. "In regard to locat legislation. I shall study carefully each depart ment of County Government with the officials of sash department with the citizens at the county. And whatever local legislate) we find is necessary I shall be glad to enact it into law. But I will not introduce any local legislation in direct con flict. with the mandatory provision* of state laws. Whatever we do we will make it stand or we wfl! not attempt n at all."
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